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The fear of stammering on certain words |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 10 September 2009 16:34 |
I would like to start this article on a positive; I have successfully managed to overcome a stammer that had been badly affecting my life for the previous eighteen years. I have now been fluent for over fourteen years and they have, without a shadow of a doubt, been the best fourteen years of my life. In this article I will be providing an insight into the life of a person that has a stammer, or at least what life used to be like for me.
 I personally had a number of major speech issues; the stammer would tend to rear its ugly head when I felt under pressure, when I was tired, when I was hungover, when I was irritated and also on a specific set of words. Basically the majority of words that began with the letters b,d,v,k,g,m and n were difficult for me to say.
As the readers of this article may well imagine having all of these troubles with all of these words meant that I had a real lack of confidence with my overall ability to speak fluently. Also as soon as I felt tired or irritable I just knew that I needed to avoid any form of conversation, where possible. After a night on the beer I became like a hermit, seemingly too scared to even rise out of bed until all of the affects of the alcohol had worn off.
Going back to the specific words that I feared; I realised that I needed to find some type of temporary solution or stuttering help to the problem. I say temporary as my long term goal had always been to achieve total fluency. What I decided to do, in my wisdom, was to basically avoid all of my difficult words at all cost. I managed to do this by speaking less and also by finding alternative words to say. This took a great deal of time and effort but overall did provide me with the temporary solution that I was looking for. It most certainly was not ideal and I have never been one to accept second best; hence the reason why I worked so hard to eventually overcome the stammer.
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